Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Is the LK-99 Superconductor the Key to Green Energy? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. ENGINEER HERE: One thing I wish Peter would be more clear about is that we would be doing the energy transition ANYWAY. Forget green or anything else for a moment and realise that modern societies need energy to simply function. You need energy to turn on the lights, supply water to your home, store your food, cook your food and take away your crap when you flush the toilet. Then when you leave the house you need energy for everything else. One of the consequences of privatising so much of our societies following the Reagan-Thatcher revolution was that we STOPPED spending enough on certain parts of the infrastructure to keep up with the needs of our societies. Just population growth alone increases the demands on energy supply. Forget how you generate energy, if the population goes up 50% then the energy they need goes up 50%. The only way to change that is with more energy efficient end user products, but that only goes so far. Right now the entire developed world is suffering from an energy crisis that started in the 1980s when Reagan and Thatcher started to privatise everything they could and then everyone else followed. We don't generate enough energy and the energy generation systems we have ARE OLD and NEED TO BE REPLACED. There have been dozens of power stations turned off for the simple reason they got old and wore out and now they need to be replaced. We now need to replace a lot of hardware and we were ALWAYS going to have to replace it. Things don't last forever. Its just happening at a time when we are also changing HOW WE GENERATE and distribute energy.
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